Echo Bay project: Westchester cites concerns over sewer plant

10:44 AM,
Apr. 5, 2013

The proposed development on Echo Bay. The former armory is seen at the far left.

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The Westchester County planning board raised concerns about the city's Echo Bay waterfront development this week, questioning whether it would be too built up for the area and whether homes should be next to a sewage treatment plant.

"We do not advocate putting any residential use adjacent to a county wastewater treatment plant," reads the board's findings, approved Tuesday.

Mayor Noam Bramson strongly defended the plan to bring 285 rental apartments, space for stores and restaurants, and a 5-acre waterfront park to a site now occupied largely by the city public-works yard. ...